Big's Backyard Ultra

It's a pretty nice little track apparently.

But yeah, the US always do it at Bigs Backyard Ultra, which is like a trail course during the day, which has like each lap about 130 meters of elevation or something.

It's 400 feet.

So whatever that is.

That's happening right now.

Go on to BigsBackyardUltra.com if you want to try to track it.

And you can live stream.

There's a YouTube channel.

Yeah, so all right, next topic.

Uh, Big's Backyard.

So we, we, we mentioned this-

Yeah

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this is a cool thing to watch for.

Like if, uh, find it on YouTube, Big's Backyard YouTube live stream.

They're gonna live stream it and such.

The Joker and the Dark Knight was a very scary character, so yeah, Mark Dowdle's-- I'm excited to see what he does.

They got the Big's Backyard Ultra coming up-

Yeah

... either this or next weekend, and dude, he's gonna get pushed in that pretty hard for sure.

I know when he was talking on Free Trail, there was still, like, a hope that he could rebound for some time in the fall, and it looks like we're gonna get it, so fantastic.

Next up here, a, a little bit of a, a preview of Big's Backyard.

The 2026 Backyard Ultra World Team Championship takes place on October 17th, 2026.

It operates, Alyssa, I think really interestingly as a global team event where national squads of 15 runners compete simultaneously in their home countries.

[heartbeat beating] Hello, and welcome back to a, a different episode of Run To Your Own this week.

Um, our guest, we've already had him on to talk about who he is, but today we're talking about the Backyard Sat Champs or World Champs.

We'll find out what they're actually called.

I've, I've heard rumors that they've changed their name, but I've not heard that officially, so we'll have to... we'll find out.

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What are the team championships?

So the team championships is essentially, um, the culmination of the last two years of Backyard running.

Um, so every country in the world that has a team, I think there's 74 taking part this year, um, they take their top 15 runners from the results of the last two years.

I feel like it's like a six-word title, but.

Yeah, like Dogs, Dogs Big.

Yeah, yeah.

In a couple weekends now.

You've done similar formats in the past, but how did you like that, the Big Dog's Backyard?

Well, something about Big's Backyard, it's a 4.16667-mile loop, whatever that is, where you— answer the bell every hour to go out and run that loop again repetitively until the last man standing.

24 of them equals 100 miles.

That's right.

In 2025, the Sierra Vista 50K, she was the women's winner, the overall winner in 435.

Went on to 2025's Bigs Backyard Ultra, where she logged 92 yards, which comes out to 383 miles.

It's a new U.S. Women's Best.

It's the second woman in that year's competition.